Image via Stone Nudes.

I don’t know why, but climbing and bouldering is really kind of trendy in the tech scene here in San Francisco — not in a bad way, it’s totally healthy and very inclusive. Personally, I dislike heights, so you won’t see me joining the fun, though I’ve been kindly invited many times. But an awful lot of tech peeps love to climb. While the below clip of “cliffhanger sex” isn’t brand new, it was pulled from a previous site and has happily re-surfaced. Is that a rock climbing pun?

I don’t know, but after seeing a facial at such heights I think I might think twice about looking up at Half Dome. Add that to the naked climbers at Stone Nudes (above) and I just hope everyone’s being *careful* up there…

Thanks to Ed for the clip!

Do I even need to explain this? I will because it’s awesome! “Now even if you lose in the game, you can still be a winner in life.” When I talk about future sex, I often tell journalists that much of the innovation is going to come from gaming — because it’s consumer entry level use of force-feedback and haptic devices, affordable and hackable. Case in point: The Joydick;

(…) is a wearable haptic device for controlling video gameplay based on realtime male masturbation. Through the use of a carefully designed strap-on interface, the user’s penis is converted into a joystick capable of moving the character onscreen in all four cardinal directions. For games requiring the fire button, a separate ring can be worn which converts hand-strokes into button presses.

This project is brought to you in collaboration with the Notorious Noah. Learn how to make your own here. (link, fffff.at, thanks tobi!)

I wonder how many “gaming widows” wish their exes had just cut to the chase and used The Joydick!?!?

Incredible portrait of blogger/photographer Marta Lamovsek with Slovenian Playboy girls. “This pick was made after we shoot for a Slovenia Playmate of the Year. Aleš Bravničar as a photographer, I did the assisting (and girls loved me, of course ;)”

My plane tickets are purchased (thanks, anonymous sponsor!) and I will be hotel-hopping with streaming mobile video, liveblogging, lots of friends, queer porn pals, backstage access like crazy, and — I aim to misbehave. It’s got to be SXSWi 2009, Austin, Texas.

It’s now official that I’ll be giving a core conversation talk (in my own room) with special surprise guests called “Sexual Exploitation, Sexual Expression and Self-Defense.” This will be on Monday, March 16, from 5-6 PM. “From the personal to the professional, we will demonstrate and discuss instances, legal realities and tactics for survival and success of sexuality-related crises that occur online.” The tickets, officialness, skinny legs and all has come together in my inbox this weekend — simultaneously with learning about a talk I really wish I could have seen. There’s no audio for it online, or much in the way of details (for legal reasons, I’ll guess) but it’s *very* thought-provoking in what little bits of it are viewable online and it ties into my SXSWi talk plans. Recently, Colette Vogele gave a talk at Berkeley School of Law to a privacy class regarding a recent case she filed involving a “Doe Plaintiff” who is facing a serious online reputation crisis after a former boyfriend posted photos and images of her to a user-generated porn site.

Slide excerpt by Colette Vogele.

Vogele (full disclosure: she is one of my lawyers) just filed suit, so no details of the case are available but even the generalities are fascinating in this rapidly, rabidly emerging crisis area of law, sexuality and online personality management. It affects all of us. On the Stanford Law Blog Vogele writes,

The most interesting thing for me (so far) in this case was learning about the option of filing a case as a “Doe Plaintiff.” This is important because people faced with these problems must deal with the unwelcome additional publicity that may surround their filing suit. Filing a public lawsuit may exacerbate the problem, not help. There is little law on Doe Plaintiffs in the context of cyber-bullying and cyber-privacy concerns (esp. when not involving children). In our case, the court recently granted our motion to proceed anonymously (which the defendant did not oppose) but the order is not published (except for on the court’s docket). (…read more, cyberlaw.stanford.edu)

Slide excerpt by Colette Vogele.

See all of Vogele’s slides here. I’ll have more details about my talk available soon, but if you’re coming to SXSWi, it will be held as an open forum where you can ask me questions, which I’m really excited about.

Images are from the short, hot and totally worth a visit collection of pics at New Film Dimension, where they caught the hot cylon (aka Juicy Flawless) onstage at the Roxie. She wasn’t *only* dressed as a Catholic schoolgirl… Love her. LOVE HER.

Image of Katja B. from this gallery.

Because every “girl Friday” is pretty… We start our tour in Argentina and as always, end up in Eastern Europe. But there’s a pretty decent stopover in girl-on-girl land (porn’s midwest, if you will) so it’s not a bad tour. In fact, I found some real gems of arousal this week, and had some inspiring surprises.

I really like the Argentinian site — foreplay: beauty in the trees and a moody and strange blindfold scene between two girls.

Then, to the American porny flyover states: four girls on a picnic blanket and a wayward fist, oh my. Video: a blond and brunette I really enjoyed watching partake of the simple pleasures; even more of those simple wet pleasures between two brunettes in a bathtub. Here’s a hot still gallery of two brunettes waking up together and solving their morning wood issues; I also enjoyed these three girls going crazy on a couch (videos), and while I dislike the crappy “teen” wrapper to sell the product, I had to share this video collection of one very lovely, fleshy girl playing with herself.

Image of Natasha A. from this gallery.

In the fine art, explicit porn — don’t miss Nastiya (who reminds me of Willow from Buffy); Albina who shows us that polka dots and fishnets *do* go together, Natasha A. (above) getting very explicit in denim; and Freya who rocks the cute smiles and the superb all-natural pubic style. Three user-generated galleries made me come back for more: this collection of shoots with Inna Q.; an anthology of one of my favorite models Jenya D.; and while model Katja B. (top of post) isn’t to my personal taste, I find her to be a really hot all-natural large-breasted blond that reminds me of Playboy circa 1960 — and I like it.

Image “in the kitchen” by h.andras_xms.

I’m extremely excited to announce today’s launch of my new sex column over at BrokeAss Gourmet! When the team behind this new food blog approached me, I instantly warmed to the idea of a gourmet DIY food blog without pretension; they did name it “BrokeAss” after all. But what I really love is that the goal is to actually provide instructions for making meals that comes across as fancy or gourmet, but can be made for $20 or less. And since everyone I know has been laid off or still can’t find a job, a site that has us all eating well but living cheap couldn’t have better timing.

So, my challenge every two weeks is to cook a sexy meal, make it something a chef would admire, and give you the recipe — all for under $20 (hopefully with booze included). The fun is putting my cooking skills, sex and food knowledge, and snark to the test: in the column I do indeed openly recommend theft of overpriced but delicious food items (while providing the price if you can go over $20), while making fun of the tech company that just kicked you to the curb. Aphrodisiacs, yes. And if you’re wondering if I can cook, well — I’m not afraid to brag that I’m a true badass in the kitchen. Set me loose in your kitchen and I can always make something yummy out of whatever you have. Working in kitchens got me by when I was a homeless teen, and that skill later got me off the streets and into a lot of professional kitchens until my writing took off. You better bet I can make a meal to seduce and satisfy for less than twenty bucks; plus, I’m doing my recon for prices here in San Francisco (think: Bi-Rite). So wherever *you* are, dear reader, you know it’s cheaper.

There are a lot of fun features planned for BrokeAss Gourmet, like a guide to inexpensive but top-rate tasting alcohols, and some very snarky commentary features about the dining scene I can’t give you all the details on… yet. But now, enjoy my Love Spell Pizza, snip:

Sharing a meal that you eat with your hands is sexy enough; even better when the ingredients drive your senses into overdrive. Pizza has always been associated with love and romance, but the open secret about sexing up the DIY pizza is capitalizing on the aphrodisiac herbs on the cheap while making a pie that would impress top chefs — and a date. Even if that date is you. Basil is reputed to stimulate the sex drive from Sicily to India (and sacred to voodoo love goddess Erzulie); rosemary is an herb of romantic memory and a sprig can be easily stolen from anyone’s front yard in broad daylight. In Italy, sweet basil is called “kiss me Nicholas” (bacia-nicola); rosemary was reputedly named for Aphrodite / Venus and in many early depictions the goddess of love was portrayed clutching or wearing a sprig of the fragrant herb. And it is a weed, my friends, it grows everywhere. Paying for rosemary is foolish. And if you want to go the distance, slipping some overpriced and trendy — yet delicious — Mozzarella di Bufala up your sleeve or in the spacious pocket of your former employer’s keepsake company hoodie is a pretty romantic risk to take for a date. Trust me, it works. (…read more, brokeassgourmet.com)

If you’re curious about how foodservice saved my life and got me off the streets, read about it after the jump. Ironically, I’m blogging this in bed (still down with the flu) with a worn copy of Kitchen Confidential next to me.

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It is generally not my policy to send sites such as these traffic. However, the just-launched t-shirts at Passion 4 Christ Movement (p4cmtshirts.bigcartel.com) are… priceless. My irony meter passed red and the gauge exploded in giggles and steam when I saw the “ex-masturbator” tees right next to the “ex-hypocrite” shirts in their store (!), but also that the “ex-homosexual” isn’t available yet — alas, the “ex-homosexual” is “coming soon.” (thanks, Eve!)

From the Best Sex Writing 2009 reading, via Nokia N95, left to right: Tracy Clark-Flory, Mistress Morgana, Rachel Kramer Bussel, me, Mary Roach.

Last friday I had the extreme joy of reading from Best Sex Writing 2009 with one of my favorite authors — and now, my friend — Mary Roach. We’re both in the book together, which is so very exciting. What’s even better is that after being online friends, that evening we finally got to meet in person and had drinks, which we’ve been meaning to do for quite a while. What is it like to have drinks with Mary Roach? Just as crazy and hilarious and nerdy as you’d think, but squared. We plan to do a lot more of this. I interviewed her about hew newest book “Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex” for my San Francisco Chronicle column this week; the book came out last year but getting to interview her after reading the book was (for me) more interesting than the other way around. Usually the pre-press happens, then the book comes out, and I read the book and then I have all these unanswered questions; I kind of like this better. See what I mean in my piece, Martinis With Mary Roach:

Local author Mary Roach has to be the world’s funniest science writer; who else can take a book on cadavers, visit a dead body “farm,” and sit in on severed-head plastic surgery practice - and make it funny? No one, that’s who. While you’re squirming and squeaming, she’s observing and humorously sharing our collective OMG about the human condition. In her newest book “Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex” Roach takes us on a tour that manages to make you want to see just how tight you can cross your legs while delivering a book about sex research that is impossible to put down once you crack open the cover.

Last week I had the joy of joining Mary Roach in a reading from a book we’re both featured in, “Best Sex Writing 2009″ punctuated by three hours of sciency nerdgasm over martinis as Roach and I absconded from the crowd for some much-needed, post-reading lubrication. (Yes, I know, keep reading.) Having drinks with Mary Roach is just like reading one of her books and getting to ask all the creepy questions you want, and her answers inform and educate, while also turning your nose into a beverage sprayer. Note: Do not take a sip of your martini when asking her how, in “Bonk,” the creator of The Eroscillator (an unattractive and slightly overpriced vibrator created by a former electric toothbrush inventor) realized his returned-for-repairs toothbrushes were being used for something other than dental hygiene, prompting the invention of another type of intimate health gadget.

Or, the smelt. Not as in “she who smelt it” but the fried smelt. I should have known that after a certain amount of time the woman who went to a sow insemination farm to investigate whether orgasm boosted fertility in pigs during hands-on artificial insemination (chapter 4), she’d make me eat something weird. Just because. Combine a couple martinis, her behind the scenes take on the mechanics of animal-human testicle implantation (chapter 7) and fried smelt - you do the math. This was only topped when Roach told me about fried cod semen, apparently something she’d recently tried in Japan. Mary said, “You just keep telling yourself it’s Ma-Po tofu, but a little spicier.” At which point I realized that the next several times I ate tofu, I’d have to keep telling myself I was eating tofu.

Mary knows her gin, and even better, she knows her subject matter like no other author I’ve chatted with. Going into the subject of science and sex, she really had hoped to uncover a teeming mad scientist underground of researchers all over the world (…read more, sfgate.com)

* And yes, the SF Gate *still* really needs to do something about the pointlessly mean troll commenters.

I just want to say how cool the people at Kink are, and what a great relationship I have with them: whenever something porny and sexy goes on one of their sites that they think you and I might like, they send me exclusive access that I can share with you. Here’s a great example: Kink on Demand just got a new installment from the man I call ‘the Helmut Newton of Porn’ — Andrew Blake. And you can get a taste of the whole, very explicit video/gallery here in Kink on Demand: Andrew Blake’s “Switching” — “Elena and Courtney take turns playing dominant and submissive puppets for the pleasure of Andrew Blake.”

But just for us, I’ve got a small selection of handpicked stills from “Switching” after the jump. Enjoy!

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Yesterday I was on G4’s Attack of the Show for a short, live via satellite interview about future sex — mostly Kevin wanted to know when he’s getting his custom geeky robot girlfriend and when he will be able to get busy with her in space. It was a blast! I had a lot of fun, as you’ll see in the above clip — it went by so fast and I felt like I had so much more to say, and so many more things to tell about. I want to do it again, our banter was fantastic. Lots of people are saying they really liked my segment (thank you!), and the clip made it onto Attack of the Show’s blog as a staff pick! YAY! I was in a downtown SF studio for filming (the show is in LA) and I thought it was great that they had me with a fake Alamo Square background — that’s one of my favorite places in SF. I shot a quick video after:

And took this photo: I was alone in the room, and while I’ve done this before for CNN, it’s still so strange. Alone, wired in and listening to the show and audience, but talking to a little red light in the dark, like HAL. That’s what it’s like for most individuals when you see people on TV ‘via satellite’.

Shot with my Nokia N95-4.

Lux replies to the above graphic saying, “Also not the only kind of blowjob that ever makes its way on camera. Putting forth the assumption that all porn promotes aggressive, violent sex creates a very limited view of the possibilities of sex on film.”

The “Real Sex vs. Porn Sex” (Make Love, Not Porn) link is making the blogospehere rounds, but I think the best commentary on it so far has to be from my pal Lux at Fleshbot — go read her detailed responses to the fantasy versus reality webcomic and see what I mean. Many of you know I’ve written extensively on the topic, and it’s nice to see an even-handed, sex-positive (and most especially, pro-pron, and female) take on the statements that the “Real Sex vs. Porn Sex” website is putting forth. Lux says, “While we certainly appreciate the fundamental message behind the project (porn is fantasy, and not like real life), we found ourselves a bit put off by some of the assumptions—and misinformation—the site puts forth about pornography (and, for that matter, the real world). Much of it seems to be based on broad generalizations and limited experiences—two things we happen to hate.”

I couldn’t agree more.

Image by creamy shower.

At this moment I’ve been quickly, ruthlessly taken down by the flu, so my posts might be somehow more erratic than usual. That said, it’s been too long since I’ve sent some hot boy galleries your way. I’ve been holding onto this cute British CFNM gallery with video from the very fun Pure CFNM, a scenario where four women take down a bossy guy, with smiles all around. Next, Nude Male Dancers from Montreal — they’re very easy on the eyes. Montreal looks fun. One good cutie solo gallery here. This gay coupling (also, video) from Next Door Buddies is pretty hot, and on Next Door Hookups where gay men are making straight amateur porn, this young blond couple (also, video) had the hottest scene of the week.

Self-portrait two nights ago with some post production by Aphro (aka ASTROblaque).

It’s a very lighthearted and fun, T&A soaked gift list called Valentine’s Day Tips from The World’s Sexiest Women. I knew I would be featured in the piece, but it’s so very strange to see myself in a lineup with Playmates of The Year, Suicide Girls, Jesse Jane, Penthouse Pets… um, and me? It’s for AOL’s men’s lifestyle magazine, Asylum, and it’s actually pretty cool. Some weird stuff (like the Boyfriend Pillow), fun toys, and my top picks (hint: my picks are all from JimmyJane, just because I want, like, everything they make).

Photo of the beautiful Lorelei Lee representing Kink.com, by misterajc from last year’s Folsom Street Fair.

I know I talk about Eon and his work a lot because he’s a very close friend, and you all know I love Lorelei Lee — but I just wanted to point you to two fresh (and refreshing, informal) interviews in the San Francisco Bay Guardian’s local sex-positive blog SexSF. It’s an amusing blog in general, in case you haven’t checked it out, do; I really enjoy Justin Juul’s Cruising Craigslist: This week’s best personals. Here’s a snip from Eon’s interview — it’s introduced by an overview of altporn so get ready to party like it’s 2005, and yes, they spelled his name wrong in the post title:

SFBG: What makes Vivid Alt different than other kinds of alternative pornography?

EM: The one thing that I see going on with the other people who are producing alt porn that for whatever reason its kind of getting stuck on a very particular look, a look that was… and I don’t want to pigeonhole it too much, but there happens to be this kind of alternative look. There is a certain kind of settling into a look that is looking a little old. I think there are always new subcultures, and you use this term “hipster porn”, and it’s a term I use sometimes, as an aging hipster, there is always new stuff you are getting into and new styles you get into, and its kind of all happening at the same time. I try to make sure Vivid Alt and the stuff that we make as open and as free as that whole process. I’m just not interested in making porn that looks like it’s stuck in 2001. (…read more, sfbg.com)

And here is a snip from Lorelei’s short and bizarrely blunt reader-submitted interview; she’ll be reading locally at the Make-Out Room on Valentine’s Day which sounds like a great date idea to me:

Heather D: Does your vagina/asshole hurt all the time? And if not, what’s your secret?

Lorelei Lee: I do get sore sometimes, but usually it’s my back or my thighs that hurt from doing weird positions like “the squatting reverse cowgirl” or from being pressed up against a desk or a table. As far as insider secrets go, nothing too crazy. I usually do some stretching to warm up my limbs and I just use my fingers to get my ass and vag muscles ready. My fingers and a lot of lube, that is. Some girls bring their own dildos or butt plugs to warm up, but lube is the real key. My job would be a whole lot harder without that stuff! (…read more, sfbg.com)

Image via Marc Wathieu.

From Thomas Roche, I just now learned that Lux Interior of The Cramps has left us (mtv.com). May your pussy do the dog wherever you land, Lux — thank you for decades of lushly fucked up oversexed rockabilly punk rock rawness that was never safe for work. Unless you’re Poison Ivy — his wife of 37 years. As I said on Twitter, around the world right now, thousands of microphones are being deep-throated in grief. Good night, kitty kitty.

Oh, Irina… ! The post and its amusing descriptive text is here (Evan Stone warning), although I have to say that Tera Patrick was virtually unrecognizable to me for a second…

Even if that speed is in the form of a plushie doll; the lushly giving, or troublesome and cruel, or political battlefield — the lovely uterus, it seems is unsafe even if created to cuddle with. It is in this case, potentially harmful to children. I Heart Guts — a site I am absolutely thrilled to discover — has issued a recall of all their Plush Uterus Dolls due to the fact that, “Plush Uterus has failed a pull test. The ovaries may detach when pulled, becoming a potential small part choking hazard for young children.” I Heart Guts adds, “No one has been harmed. We have filed a safety recall notice with the U.S. Consumer Product and Safety Commission (CPSC). If the plush uterus is being used by a young child, please remove it immediately. If you gave the uterus as a gift, please forward this email to the recipient(s).”

Uterus recall. Ouch. (Thanks, Praemedia!)

You’ve probably read by now (or seen) that some Comcast viewers in Arizona got ten seconds of porn accidentally fed into their Superbowl viewing, ironically right after a touchdown. Or maybe someone was having fun. Anyway, you can see the clip at Gizmodo or Fleshbot, and yes, the person who lucked out and taped this has their own website that’s snapping a server in half with bandwidth *and* of course is trying to make some money off of it (the American way, or luck in a recession). But I can ID the clip: it’s Evan Stone flipping his Chippendale’s circa 1989 hair around and flapping his dick while Tory Lane *the very sexy Tristan Kingsley* just kind of giggles at him, from Wild Cherries #4 5 (2007) (’tis on Pirate Bay, too, I noticed). Mystery solved, you can all sleep well tonight, phew. And now you see how porn is re-sold endlessly; this was clearly a repackaged clip, from the Club Jenna channel.

* Thanks to commenters for the corrections! Porn databases are not known for their consistency nor reliability… and Kingsley is hot, what a great discovery.

Image from the warm-ups for the competition.

You can have your men in tights and sexless commercials. I’ve got your sporting event right here. In San Francisco, really: Kink’s site Fucking Machines held a squirting “olympics”, where a few selected female porn performers who ejaculate upon orgasm competed to see who could outdistance each other, and ejaculate the furthest when they came.

The winner? Annie Cruz, who amazingly — and very happily — ejaculated 13 feet, 5 inches. Touchdown! See some photos and several videos (6, mpg) from their very sporting event here.

Grainy but satisfying titty-licious new ad for Calvin Klein Jeans, courtesy of AdRants, who has more info about the campaign. I can’t wait for the billboards :D

As you can see, there is *everything* to love about the NYC pastie blog. Nom. Go forth, pastie blog. Make us proud.

Image from this gallery.

I don’t know why, but there was a lot of washing up in the free galleries that landed in my inbox today. Brazilian Gabriella is the uber-hottie in the main pic above. Hungarian Orsi has to wash… um, something. Argentinian Muriel looks really shiny (and pretty) in the shower. I’ve never linked to Hegre’s “teen” site on principal, but I gave in when I saw this cutie rolling about in rose petals. Richard Kern — hit and miss these days — turned out this nice set with a model named Karli, whom I’m choosing to believe is Summer Glau. He also did a sweet set with this unnamed hottie that looks a lot like a friend of mine that I know many of you lust over…

And then there’s this, a dreamy gift from an anonymous longtime friend of mine:

A re-imagining of the notoriously campy 1940’s stag film, Co-Ed Secrets, here presented with a serious case of David Lynchitis.

Music adapted from Atmospheres and Soundscapes 2 by the incredibly talented open-source composer ERH.

Image by Jing Quek.

The above image is by photographer Jing Quek (in their incredible OHMYGOD gallery), and I had a feeling it was soymilk — then the distinct pleasure of reading the file info and yes! Lactose-free ecstasy. Lactard porn. But the real point of this post is to point you to the brilliant, I-wish-I-was-there, ongoing Sex Positive Film Documentary series at the Chicago College of Architecture and the Arts, which started two days ago and lasts at least through October 2009 and is totally free. They have an incredible lineup planned, including many films I’ve never seen and want to see. What a fantastic idea, and a great community service, if you will. (thanks for the tip, P!)

She’s still hot, even if she doesn’t have a machine gun leg in real life. I love the selfmade cleavage in this shot; it makes up for the overall tease. Makes me wish I was her left hand, like really a lot. I would be a very happy left hand of Rose McGowan. See the giant version of this image I found today at New Film Dimension. Anyone remember when she walked the red carpet for the Grindhouse premiere for the MTV Awards pretty much naked in 2007 1998 (drunkhollywood.com)?

Update: See reader corrections, making Rose officially over a decade of *still hot*. Thank you, readers!

Image from this Ultimate Surrender gallery, which may not be totally appropriate for this post but I couldn’t resist showing Madison kicking ass.

In case you didn’t know, being an adult woman and a member of the itty bitty titty committee isn’t exactly easy when it comes to bra shopping — especially when you want something sexy. I am just outside of this club, but a friend emailed me today with her excited discovery: sexy lingerie (corsets, bridal stuff, very sexy bras) for women of the “A” and under. This stuff is hard to find. She found a gold mine that must be shared at Lula Lu, which has a) this incredibly hot model, and cute bras like this. Tiny adorable nipples can be seen here and there on the site as well, in case that’s what you’re wondering…

Image by bandé les yeux.

No, not a call for submissives! You are all silly. Submissions, like, stories. This will indeed by my last year editing this grand series — by choice. (After Best Women’s 2010, I’ll do a “best of the best” collection from my five-year stint, so you’ll see my absolute faves like a sweet curtsy.) I think an award-winning, five-year run with the series is graceful — I only intended to edit one, five years ago. Let’s make the last one count, shall we? Do read the guidelines and information I posted on The Erotica Readers and Writers Association, in full after the jump.

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Image via claire.whithard.

In this week’s San Francisco Chronicle column, I take off the gloves about the frightening current issue of authorities criminalizing teen sexuality and prosecuting kids for electronic sexual-self expression as if they are trafficking in child pr0n: it’s a serious problem. Please read Kids Charged for Child Porn - Violet Blue: When Teens Make Their Own Porn, Who’s Being Exploited? I put it all together, and it’s a scary picture. You’ll likely be as outraged as I am. Here’s a snip:

Not so long ago, you could take an album or two (of music, not photos) and record a bunch of different songs, copy them to a cassette tape as a mix, and give the music to a friend. Now, if you do the same thing with online tools, it’s called “file sharing” and has gotten many individuals sued. It also used to be easy to grab a Polaroid camera, take a naked photo, and hand it to a friend. That friend might pass the photo around without you knowing it, but these things happened and this was the risk you took when you pointed the camera at your uncovered bits. It was not totally uncommon for people under the age of eighteen to do this; hormones raging, it happened, and if you got caught you’d be in a lot of trouble. But you were likely mostly embarrassed. And then totally grounded.

Now if people under eighteen do the same thing with online tools and cell phones, they’re being charged with trafficking child pornography or charged as sex offenders - even when they’ve taken the photos themselves.

In March 2004, a 15-year-old Pittsburgh girl was arrested for taking nude photographs of herself and posting them on the Internet; she was charged with sexual abuse of children, possession of child pornography and dissemination of child pornography. Okay, so maybe in 2004 the people interpreting these laws were slightly more ignorant about how the Internet works and that the legal system just needed to “catch up.” Or so you’d think.

In October 2008, a 15-year-old Newark, Ohio girl was charged with felony child pornography charges for sending nude photographs of herself to a classmate in a text message. Charged with “possessing criminal tools and the illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material,” she’d taken a nekkid pic of herself and sent it to a 13-year-old classmate (male). She currently faces felony sex offense charges, and the likelihood of having to register as a “sex offender” for the rest of her life.

But wait, there’s more. (…read more, sfgate.com)

You can tell when I’ve just finished a writing project and need to blow off steam; there’s silence on my 147 RSS feeds, then a video of my cat appears, I have an outdoor adventure (drinking), it’s probably wednesday, and then all my blogs get hit with my braindump. And I sit in bed with the laptop cruising for porn, sex and culture news stories, and watching online video all night.

Video night! Thanks for joining me. Soon I will post a very serious news item. But now, we have fun.

* Please tell me you did not miss my recent Laughing Squid post, Craigslist Penis Photographer Featuring Bob Odenkirk. Just go read it for the article.

* Above: Jame’s Gunn’s PG Porn finally gets funny enough for me to mention it here: Sasha Grey stars in Roadside Ass-sistance.

* Fleshbot has a sneek peek at the almost actually funny porn version of The Office, “The Office - A XXX Parody”. The sex scenes look like boring typical mainstream porn fare, but — James Deen is in it, and I know you all love James Deen. Well, he’s hot in Eon’s films, anyway…

* Above: PETA’s “banned” Superbowl ad (thrfeed.com, thanks, Sam!). The best part is this list of cuts that NBC suggested PETA make in order for the commercial to be aired:

:12- :13- licking pumpkin
:13- :14- touching her breast with her hand while eating broccoli
:19- pumpkin from behind between legs
:21- rubbing pelvic region with pumpkin
:22- screwing herself with broccoli (fuzzy)
:23- asparagus on her lap appearing as if it is ready to be inserted into vagina
:26- licking eggplant
:26- rubbing asparagus on breast

Someone just tipped me off to the fact that there’s a Dita Von Teese shoot and video in one of the Kink on Demand mineshafts; it’s not in the affiliate database (where all the free goodies are) but I hacked at the URLs a bit and found this gallery, and this page with a sample video. I’m sure someone at Kink will email me tomorrow and let me know if I should *not* have done that… ;)

Image by Don Julian.

There’s no penetration. You seldom see a face. But the post title truly, simply sums it up: Don Julian is extremely dirty. The above photo is one of the least explicit ones I could find in his galleries. And they’re quite compelling (via Sex in Art).